Avatar: The Last Airbender

The next DVD installment of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 3: Volume 3, is available this week on DVD. The DVD contains the next five chapters from Book 3: Fire, and follows Aang and his friends as they search for the Firelord and are forced to flee from the Fire Nation.

For Avatar fans, every DVD release is exciting, but even more exciting is the announcement that an Avatar movie is coming to the big screen. Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies have announced plans for a live-action epic adventure, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, which will launch over the Independence Day weekend in 2010.

M. Night Shyamalan - yes, the same one who did The Sixth Sense and Signs - will direct and produce the action-adventure based on a script that he penned. I have to admit, even I am excited about this movie. Based on the cartoon series, I am sure there will be a lot of martial arts violence, so I hope that Shyamalan can keep it toned down for kids; but the storyline will likely be very intriguing.

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